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Before the web created micro-markets for virtually any business niche or quirky hobby, people were without information and places to do business. Not anymore. Yet while most content executives understand that there is now information available on the web on any topic, many are still unsure how to take advantage of the opportunity.

Endeca, an information access company, has announced the first in a series of solutions and best practices aimed at increasing the effectiveness of search engine optimization (SEO) efforts for Guided Navigation-based websites.

Industry leaders Inxight Federal Systems, a provider of federated search, extraction, and visualization solutions for government organizations, and Visual Analytics, Inc. (VAI), a provider of interactive visual analysis and information sharing technologies, have announced that Inxight's entity and fact extraction technologies will be integrated with the Digital Information Gateway (DIG) Symphony platform and VisuaLinks from Visual Analytics to visualize the tagged data and relationships.

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan's mobile communications company and its eight subsidiaries have launched a keyword search service that will enable users to perform searches from the Japanese iMenu portal for access to i-mode sites.

CrossRef, a cross-publisher linking network with over 1,600 participating publishers, has announced that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corp. who will become the first official CrossRef WebServices Search Partner.

All due respect to Wired editor Chris Sherman, but the currently hot topic of the internet’s “long tail” has been with us at least since I started writing about digital in 1995. To be sure, Sherman deserves the credit for bringing into focus for the post-bubble world the notion that the web makes viable niche markets and remnant inventories that could never find buyers in “real world” distribution and marketing systems, but this model has been part of the web equation since day one.